Italian 1

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

12

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

School of Foreign Languages

Course type:

Elective course

When:

1 year, 1-4 module

Instructor

Алексеева Екатерина Владимировна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course “Italian 1” aims to solve the following tasks: development of speech (pragmatic) competence aimed at developing and improving communication skills in four types of speech activity (speaking, listening, reading and writing); the ability to plan one's speech behavior adequately owns a communicative case; 2) development and improvement of linguistic competence aimed at systematization of learned material; mastering of language means (phonetic, spelling, lexical, grammatical) based on authentic material; development of skills in operating with language units for communicative purposes; 3) development and improvement of sociocultural (sociolinguistic) competence aimed at increasing the amount of knowledge and improving the skills necessary to use the language in situations of communication with representatives of another culture, the ability to look for ways out of situations of communication failure due to sociocultural interference in communication.As the course is for those who start learning Italian, the syllabus is in English for your convenience. However, the course will be taught fully in Italian, with the consideration of your level, because there are both local and international students who do not share a common first language.

Learning Objectives

• To form a foreign language communicative competence at a level corresponding to the B1 according to the common European classification of foreign language competencies.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Listening and reading: can understand - the gist of short recorded texts (tempo not very fast), - the gist and details of short written texts related to the topic under study Speaking: - can make up a monologue (focusing on narrative), - can participate in a dialogue (focusing on questions). Writing: - can write an email to a friend, - can write a letter to relatives.
• is able to produce simple, coherent texts about topics with which they are familiar or in which they have a personal interest
• Can describe experiences, events, wishes and aspirations, as well as briefly justifying opinions or explaining plans

Course Contents

• Topic 1. Module 1. Introduction. Introducing yourself and others.
• Topic 2. Module 2. Work, studies and free time
• Topic 3. Module 3. My home, my family, my deeds
• Topic 4. Module 4. Holidays and rest

Assessment Elements

• Oral speech control
  Current control of oral speech is carried out in the following forms: monologic and dialogic statements on the subject of the course, performance of tasks for general/detailed understanding of the sounding text.
• Written speech control
  Current control of written speech is carried out in the following forms: production of a written text in accordance with the communicative task, performance of tasks for general / detailed understanding of the written text, lexical and grammatical tests on the material studied
• Assessment work
  Lexical-grammatical tasks within the topics studied in the module
• Exam
  Consists of a written test and an oral interview on the topics studied in the semester
• Exam
  Consists of a written test and an oral interview on the topics studied in the semester

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 2nd module
  0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.4 * Exam + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control
• 2024/2025 4th module
  0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.4 * Exam + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Nuovo progetto italiano : corso multimediale di lingua e civilta italiana, Marin, T., 2017
• Банкери, С. Итальянский язык. Основной курс : пособие для изучающих итальянский язык : уровень от начального к среднему : учебное пособие / С. Банкери, М. Леттьери , перевод с английского А. А. Вовина. — Санкт-Петербург : КАРО, 2018. — 416 с. — ISBN 978-5-9925-1273-1. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/114271 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Грамматика итальянского языка с упражнениями, Буэно, Т., 2022
• Итальянский в контексте : простое изучение языка, Буэно, Т., 2022

Authors

• ERANOVA NATALYA ANATOLEVNA
• Iashina Mariia GENNADEVNA
• ALEKSEEVA EKATERINA VLADIMIROVNA
• Шуклина Дарья Олеговна
• OKHOTNIKOV DANIIL IGOREVICH